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To romanticize is to talk or think about something so that it sounds more beautiful, more , or more full of feeling than it really was. People romanticize the past (“school was wonderful”), a job, a place, even a hard time. It is often a mild criticism: you are not calling the person a liar, but you are saying the picture is too pretty. It is a fairly grown-up verb, common when we talk about memory and stories. British spelling is often romanticise, with an s. It does not mean “to behave in a romantic way” — flowers, love notes. That is a different idea.
浪漫化（把事情想得或說得比實際美好）
組成From romantic + -ize (“to make”). Romantic itself comes, a long way back, from telling a story “in the Roman way” — in the everyday Latin-family tongue — and then from stories of adventure and love. The living pieces you can see are romantic and -ize.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
romanticizeverb/rə(ʊ)ˈmantɪsaɪz/
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To interpret, view, or portray something in a romantic (unrealistic, idealized) manner.
- While we might have a tendency to romanticize the past, the reality is that cooking was often a monotonous, arduous, thankless task required to keep the family fed.
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To think or act in a romantic manner.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。